In their forthcoming book, “More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty,” Yale economist Dean Karlan and his co-author Jacob Appel take the reader on a tour of the developing world, where development and behavioral...
Unite For Sight, an international organization founded by a Yale sophomore, will hold its eighth annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at the University and the Shubert Theater on Saturday and Sunday, April 16 and 17.The event will bring...
Vice President Lorimer, Dean Miller, and I have met with the family of Michele Dufault to extend our deepest sympathy and to offer all the assistance we can possibly provide at their most difficult time of grief. Our hearts go out to Michele’s family and...
The Whitney Humanities Center will host an interdisciplinary panel, “Naming Nature: A Conversation on the Nature, Uses and Limitations of Biological Taxonomies,” on Friday, April 15, at 2 p.m. in the center’s auditorium, 53 Wall St.The discussion is...
In times of war and crisis, a nation’s cultural heritage — its art and antiquities, its monuments and other treasures of memory — are always at risk of being destroyed, stolen or neglected.An international symposium at Yale on Saturday, April 16, will...
A stage version of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film “Autumn Sonata” — a psychological study of the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters — will make its U.S. premiere as the final production in the Yale Repertory Theatre’s 2010-2011 season...
Students credit their teachers at Yale with opening their minds and opening doors to new possibilities, with encouraging them in their myriad pursuits and challenging them to think more critically or give voice to their convictions more boldly.Yale has...
The Yale Sustainable Food Project (YSFP) will host a group from Paul Quinn College as they embark on a service project from April 17 -23 to restore some of New Haven’s community gardens.The partnership began in 2009, when Paul Quinn College President...
Ten compelling new Yale College courses, which range from financial theory to Cervantes’ Don Quixote to environmental politics and law, have been added to “Open Yale Courses,” the University’s open educational initiative. The content for each of these ten...
Renowned British historian Sir David Cannadine will give a lecture on the artistic pursuits of Winston Churchill at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, on Thursday, April 21, at 5:30 p.m.Cannadine’s lecture, titled “Painting as a Pastime...